The Suspense Project thanks Blue Hours Productions and John C. Alsedek for allowing their recording of The Hangman Won't Wait to be part of this Project. Alsedek, with Dana Perry-Hayes, created new Suspense productions that were heard on 250+ stations and satellite radio in the 2010s. The productions used professional actors, original scripts for most of their shows, and sound effects and musical bridges that captured the "Golden Age" feel. They occasionally dipped into the archives of scripts of the original Suspense series. This was one of those times.

The surviving recording of the 1943-02-09 The Hangman Won't Wait has survived only for the first half of the original broadcast. The second half has not survived. The recreation is, therefore, a complete production. The script was by John Dickson Carr and the original production starred Sydney Greenstreet. The script was also used in the BBC Appointment with Fear series as The Clock Strikes Eight on 1944-05-18. That production can be heard at the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/AppointmentWithFear440518TheClockStrikesEight The script was also recreated by American Radio Theater and can be heard at https://archive.org/details/TSPART.

Blue Hours Productions has assisted The Suspense Project before. They had earlier agreed to allow the Project to post their episode recreation of the episode 1945-07-26 Fury and Sound. That episode was missing at the time of their production. In 2022, an AFRS recording was found. One of the strangest Suspense episodes ever, the story behind it is fascinating. https://archive.org/details/suspense-fs When Blue Hours Productions made its production, they did not have a script! They did, however, have a short story that was adapted from the original script. The story appeared in an edition of Suspense magazine in the late 1940s. That story had a different ending than the actual broadcast! The scriptwriter's original script was given to the writer of the magazine, but they did not give the writer the changes that were made for the broadcast. This gave us a peek into the production process.

A "truly missing" Suspense episode is broadcast for which there is no known surviving recording and its script was not re-used in the series as a second broadcast.

The recreations are an important part of the effort to preserve the history of the series.

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